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This book paints a clear picture of what hypnosis is and is not,
what it can and cannot accomplish, and how it can be misused and
abused. Baker describes its potential for preventing or arresting
pain and outlines future directions for the role of suggestion in
the clinic and the laboratory. This engrossing, factual book is a
definitive study of hypnosis that illuminates this very unique
aspect of creative human behaviour.
This fascinating discussion of modern demonology focuses on our
ability to differentiate the physical world, with its mechanical
laws, from the inherently less predictable psychological realm of
thoughts and beliefs. McGrath points out that this ability was a
hard-won historical development, and today must be learned in
childhood through education. Because of this historical background
and our rich fantasy life in childhood, each of us unconsciously
suspects, or fears, that supernatural forces may break through the
borders of our everyday commonsense order at any time. Indeed, at
times of personal stress or societal crisis, the modern boundaries
between fantasy and reality begin to slip, and then a magical world
of demons and other phantasms can come flooding back into our
disenchanted reality.
Through this innovative thesis McGrath goes a long way toward
explaining both our fascination with fantasy entertainment, such as
horror stories and films, and bizarre crazes such as witch-hunts,
Satanism scares, and even claims of alien abduction. Despite our
demystified culture the lure of childhood's magic kingdom with its
monstrous shadow realm remains strong.
The third edition of Cardiopulmonary Bypass offers a comprehensive,
and up-to-date reference text to extracorporeal cardiopulmonary
support. This book provides a clinically-focused tutorial with
chapters spanning the technical aspects, patient related
considerations, and human factors essential to contemporary
practice of cardiopulmonary bypass. Written concisely to allow the
reader to gain and apply critical knowledge to the clinical setting
and featuring artwork that has been extensively updated to include
numerous figures and color plates imbedded into each chapter. A
remarkable collection of international experts in the fields of
perfusion, anesthesiology, and cardiac surgery were recruited to
co-author chapters, providing a multidisciplinary approach to case
management. This completely updated edition includes expanded
content on developments in minimally invasive extracorporeal
circulation, anticoagulation, organ injury, and human factors. The
comprehensive coverage of perfusion practice in a concise, highly
illustrated format makes it the go-to, portable reference manual
for perfusionists, cardiac surgeons, and anesthesiologists.
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